document_title: Orange Is the New Black (season 6)

question_text: who plays nicky in orange is the new black season 6

text: Orange Is the New Black (season 6)

text: Episodes[edit]

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No.overallNo. inseasonTitleDirected byWritten byFeatured character(s)Original release date661"Who Knows Better Than I"Michael TrimJenji KohanSuzanne & CindyJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Suzanne has hallucinations while getting back on her medications. She is the first interviewed by a federal investigation into the riot and murders. Those found in the bunker are held in isolation at Litchfield's maximum security prison and face various abuses from the guards and inmates. Frieda attempts suicide, while Red confronts Badison to protect her family. Piper desperately tries to find Alex, and fears the worst when she learns a prisoner died. Gloria attacks Maria and they are handcuffed and forced to kiss by the guards. Taystee is visited by CO Tamika Ward, who had been her friend on the outside. Suzanne is released from questioning and brought to the prison which she realizes is not her "home" anymore.

Flashback: Suzanne and Black Cindy hide in the pool and witness CERT officers stage Piscatella's body to look like the inmates killed him with his own gun. On the bus to max, Red provides a story that Piscatella brought them to the pool to torture them. Suzanne snaps at the false version of events, but Cindy insists they lie so the guards won't kill them.
672"Sh*tstorm Coming"Mark A. BurleyBrian ChamberlayneCindyJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Detectives are pressured to file charges on two murderers and three riot leaders within a week. Daya makes a plea agreement for Humphrey's murder, while Taystee is considered a leader as the public face of the riot. Black Cindy tries to warn Taystee but when she learns their fingerprints are on Piscatella's gun, she turns on Taystee to save herself. Gloria names Maria as the riot's mastermind and pressures Blanca to do the same; despite Maria's attempts to frame Gloria, MCC corroborates Gloria's story and she gets immunity for her testimony. Piper starts to bond with cellmate Beth but learns she killed her children. Caputo becomes depressed on suspension but reconnects with Figueroa, who has been made interim warden. Dixon invites himself on a road trip with Coates, not realizing Pennsatucky is in his trunk.

Flashback: Black Cindy has a teenage pregnancy by a jock with a girlfriend, and abandoned the infant to her mother's care.
683"Look Out for Number One"Erin FeeleyHilary Weisman GrahamFrieda, Carol & BarbJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Linda is identified in a Cleveland prison, threatens to sue MCC for $10 million, and is made a senior VP at triple her previous salary. Red is shocked to learn Piscatella is dead during her interview; failing to inform the others through charades, Badison sends messages but Piper misinterprets it to mean Alex was killed in the pool. Nicky calls her stepmother/attorney and is threatened with 70 years of drug theft and distribution charges to pressure her testimony against Red. Frieda retrieves Black Cindy's note and fakes senility in her interview; she is transferred to B Block with the old-timers and crazies, including Suzanne. In general population, inmates learn the power structure with D Block run by Barbara and C Block by Carol, two antagonistic sisters at the head of a decades-old feud. Daya continues to receive beatings as a guard killer, and Daddy gives her oxycodone for the pain. On work detail, Black Cindy, Flaca, Daya and Morello steal toiletries, but the products are sabotaged as an initiation.

Flashback: In the 1980s, Frieda is in Litchfield Max and antagonizes a rivalry between drug-dealing sisters Carol and Barbara. While they attack each other on the kickball field, Frieda turns over Carol's stash to the warden for a transfer to minimum security.
694"I'm the Talking Ass"Phil AbrahamTami SagherNickyJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Blake, Luschek and McCullough return to duty, the latter suffering PTSD. They are invited into the fantasy inmate league, gambling on inmate deaths and injuries. Alex returns and is reunited with Piper. Coates, Dixon and Pennsatucky have fun at an amusement park. To get her kids out of foster care, Aleida begins selling dietary shakes, including to head CO Hopper. Taystee learns she is being charged for Piscatella's murder and speaks with Caputo. Nicky tells Red about the drug charges and gets Red's permission to testify against her, realizing that she is loved by someone.

Flashback: Nicky's selfish divorced parents fight through revisions to her bat mitzvah speech. She breaks from her good behavior and, inspired by her Torah portion of Balaam's Talking Ass, mocks God for the Holocaust and her parents for neglecting her while comparing herself to the donkey who suddenly found its voice after enduring abuse. Afterward, her parents berate her while arguing with each other over who has to take her home.
705"Mischief Mischief"Andrew McCarthyAnthony NatolinoneJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Luschek hosts the fantasy inmate draft with a party that sees him replace Alvarez as league commissioner. Copeland instigates a fight between Piper and Maria, two of her picks, for Chapman's tooth chip and superglue. Alex helps Badison with a prank to make peace. Daddy instructs her D Block gang to release rats in the cheese-packaging facility in the hopes C Block will be fired and D Block will get those work assignments. McCullough, who has been burning her legs with cigarettes, strikes Maria for talking back. Blanca reveals that Maria set the hostages free, thwarting Maria's attempt to join a gang. Someone later tries to drown Maria in a toilet. Linda meets with Figueroa who realizes from her ordeal that they're short a prisoner and calls a manhunt. Coates convinces Pennsatucky to hike across the Canadian border but she sees his anger resurface under pressure and turns herself in. Linda threatens civil action against Caputo unless he takes a dead-end job at a Missouri prison. Afraid that someone in B Block has been sent to kill her, Frieda agrees for lonely Suzanne to be her cellmate.
716"State of the Uterus"Constantine MakrisMerritt TierceDaddyJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Daddy's rat prank results in MCC losing the lucrative cheese-packaging contract and unintentionally closes the route CO Hellman was bringing drugs into the prison. Badison seeks revenge for the job loss by having her people defecate in D Block's laundry. Daddy further incites her strung-out followers by blaming C Block for cutting off their supply. Daya consoles Daddy. Luschek is made head of recreation and interviews radio show acts. Flaca looks for a co-host and finds an unexpected rapport with Black Cindy. Gloria fears she is entering menopause and follows doctor's advice to exercise. Blanca learns that she has limited fertility. Red signs a plea agreement to inciting the riot to avoid other charges. In court, Taystee pleads guilty to inciting the riot but not guilty to murder; the ACLU offer representation and Black Lives Matter pressure MCC to take her out of solitary. Piper proposes a prison wedding to Alex. Aleida visits her kids in foster care, and discovers that none of them want anything to do with her.

Flashback: Daddy ran a house of college escorts to successful Latino businessmen. Although a woman is killed at a party, she covers it up and soon provides another escort for the client.
727"Changing Winds"Andrew McCarthyHeather Jeng BladtBadisonJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Carol holds Badison accountable for Daddy's prank that cost them their cushy jobs, and cuts her out. Badison consults with Alex and convinces Luschek to smuggle valuable smartphones. Though Alex doesn't want anything to do with it, she ends up with the phone when Badison is stabbed in the yard by Daddy's girls. Strung-out, Daya steals Barbara's personal stash; Daddy is incensed and they have angry sex. Taystee receives fan mail, which the guards redact. Suzanne comes out to the yard to see Taystee and Black Cindy, but doesn't know how to talk with them while keeping the secret. Suspected as a suicide, Maria is released from psyche with the suggestion of finding religion. Pennsatucky blackmails Linda for a bunk in B Block. Preparing to leave town, Caputo goes on his first real date with Figueroa, and tries to give her closure for a past event. Considering writing a memoir, Piper examines the library and finds photos from before the feud, and determines to heal divisions by bringing back kickball.

Flashback: Bullied Badison acts out, is expelled from school, and sent to a boot camp for troubled teens where she tries to find acceptance by severely bullying the weakest girl.
738"Gordons"Sian HederVera SantamariaTaystee & TamikaJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Alex hides the cellphone through a lockdown and search, and finds money added to her commissary despite wanting to stay out of the gang. Gloria advises Latin music and helps Luschek with his dance-aerobics class. Piper extorts Luschek to return kickball. Daddy asks Daya to buy drugs through her friends in C-block; she gets them from Blanca, in exchange for retrieving Diablo's sperm donation from the visitation washroom. The swap is noticed and Daya is beaten by C Block inmates but manages to save four pills for Daddy. Blanca and Nicky are surrounded by the same gang during the insemination procedure. Red schemes against Frieda, gaining an alliance with Carol who arranges a hair styling. Aleida is stopped from selling outside the prison by Hopper who takes her for a date. In a media interview, Taystee describes guard abuses and has her mail cut off by Tamika.

Flashback: Tamika and Taystee work a night shift at fast food restaurant Storky's, smoking a joint and getting robbed. When Taystee lies and says she cannot open the register that late without activating the security cameras, the robber steals her new Air Jordan 8 shoes instead. Tamika is impressed with Taystee's quick thinking, and Taystee reveals that there are no security cameras but she did not want to call the police or else she and Tamika would be arrested for being high and accused of stealing the money. She also reveals that her Jordans were actually "Gordons"—counterfeit.
749"Break the String"Nick SandowKirsa ReinnoneJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Zirconia becomes jealous when Gloria causes Luschek to get an erection in dance-aerobics class; she tells Badison that Gloria is turning Luschek against her, and Badison threatens Gloria against returning to class. Daddy gives addict Barbara "bath salts", sidelining her in the infirmary. Beaten Nicky talks Barbara down from her hallucinations; they bond over addiction experiences and Barbara agrees to get clean. Red tries to reconnect with her real family, and learns her husband is having an affair; full of vengeance, she quickly climbs into Carol's inner circle. Piper gains Carol's permission for kickball but gets no takers until Maria signs the church ladies; Carol then demands her people form an opposing team. Caputo is deposed ahead of Taystee's trial, admitting that she did break his nose. Black Cindy suffers back pains from guilt, she starts to confess but instead tells Taystee she has a teenaged daughter. Caputo and Figueroa continue to run-out their relationship. However, he quits MCC when Linda tells him to hold the company line. Aleida refuses to smuggle drugs for Daya until she is evicted and forced into domesticity with Hopper.
7510"Chocolate Chip Nookie"Ludovic LitteeCarolina PaizCarol & BarbJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Aleida has been using Hopper as an unwitting mule to bring drugs into the prison in the false bottom of a food-supplement container, but as the weight is increased he discovers the tampering. The inmate league has seen little action since segregating the blocks, so Luschek agrees to an interblock kickball championship in the field. In warmups, Piper is confirmed as C Block captain over Badison. Gloria continues to be harassed, and is transferred to D block with Daya and Maria. Barbara achieves 30 days of sobriety, and with new clarity plots to kill Carol, who she blames for spiking her drugs. Black Cindy makes an anonymous call to Caputo, provoking him into questioning a suspicious CERT member; Figueroa advises him to instead work the PR campaign. Frieda apologizes for misleading Suzanne and explains the feud.

Flashback: In 1982 West Virginia, high schoolers Barb and Carol kill their younger sister whose gymnastics training was causing the family to move. In Litchfield, an argument over an anecdote led to their separation and the block feud.
7611"Well This Took a Dark Turn"Laura PreponAnthony NatolinoneJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Hopper confronts Aleida with the drugs but nearing 10 years at Litchfield, he decides to smuggle full containers for three months. Badison vomits when Piper has her team run sprints. Badison tries to extend Piper's sentence by planting drugs on her and to cancel kickball by injuring a teammate. Carol paid to have Frieda killed, stunning Red. Suzanne and Pennsatucky find Gladys had a large commissary deposit, and when Gladys uses one of Carol's idioms, Frieda cuts her own arm to frame Gladys. Barbara sends her gang to kill Carol and her lieutenants at the salon; Nicky joins as a lookout to warn Red, but her message is intercepted and a guard takes Carol into protective custody. Nicky talks her way out of suspicion, having testified against Red. Caputo asks Sophia to join a lawsuit with other inmates wronged by MCC, but Linda offers settlements and early release to everyone he'd visited; Sophia agrees and signs a non-disclosure agreement. Maria is inspired by Blake to be a good person until Beth admits to attacking her. Black Cindy testifies against Taystee, told that changing her story now would make her an unreliable witness. Aiming for league points, Copeland locks Barbara in Carol's cell.
7712"Double Trouble"Clark JohnsonHilary Weisman GrahamnoneJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Barbara and Carol agree to a truce, then each declare war to their blocks. Caputo tells Taystee that she has a chance if she can win over the jury. McCullough snaps after a kickball bursts. Alex asks Badison to leave Piper alone but instead Badison hires Hellman to frame Piper. To keep Badison in line, Alex agrees to work for Carol. Hellman gives a fraudulent incident report to Hopper, to whom Piper had promised to inform on drug activities. Deciding that Piper is an unnecessary risk to his own drug operation, Hopper destroys the report and puts Piper at the top of Linda's new inmate-ranking system so that she'll be released at the end of the week. Gloria helps with Flaca's radio show in order to warn Luschek about the impending block war, but Luschek is called away for Linda's marketing campaign as MCC is rebranded PolyCon Corrections. While writing him a note, Gloria discovers Luschek's fantasy inmate data and tries to expose it on the radio, which isn't broadcasting. Alvarez sends Gloria to solitary. Red has her first visitation with her grandchildren but ruins it to attack Frieda on her return from court.
7813"Be Free"Nick SandowBrian ChamberlayneCarol & BarbJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Piper, Sophia and Blanca are told they'll be released the next day, the day of the kickball championship, of Taystee's verdict, and the day fantasy inmate concludes. Piper and Alex are "prison married" by Nicky. Aleida is shocked to see Daya high on heroin, but continues supplying her eldest to save her younger children. Taystee is found guilty; Caputo confronts a CERT member, who punches him; Figueroa sets aside business to tend his wounds. Luschek visits Gloria who challenges him to stop the fight. Carol and Barbara meet in a closet; the war is a diversion for them to infiltrate B Block and kill Frieda. Maria has a change of heart and McCullough lets the captains pick new teams, mixing the blocks. When Badison signals the attack, Suzanne kicks a high ball and the inmates are caught in the excitement of the play. With no fight causing a lockdown, Barbara and Carol's antagonism results in their deaths, bumping Copeland from last to first in fantasy inmate. Pregnant Lorna is brought to medical in distress. Piper and Sophia are united with family members, but Blanca is immediately taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for which PolyCon is running a detention facility. Piper contemplates her freedom.

Flashback: The anecdote Carol and Barbara both claimed happened to them as waitresses (bringing a customer a newspaper after mishearing a request for a "glass of ice" as "classifieds") actually happened to a third waitress who told them the story.

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text: Main cast[edit]

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Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman, inmate
Natasha Lyonne as Nicky Nichols, inmate
Uzo Aduba as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren, inmate
Danielle Brooks as Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson, inmate
Jackie Cruz as Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales, inmate
Laura Gómez as Blanca Flores, inmate
Selenis Leyva as Gloria Mendoza, inmate
Taryn Manning as Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett, inmate
Adrienne C. Moore as Cindy "Black Cindy" Hayes, inmate
Matt Peters as Joel Luschek, correctional officer
Jessica Pimentel as Maria Ruiz, inmate
Dascha Polanco as Dayanara "Daya" Diaz, inmate
Elizabeth Rodriguez as Aleida Diaz, former inmate
Nick Sandow as Joe Caputo, former warden
Dale Soules as Frieda Berlin, inmate
Yael Stone as Lorna Morello, inmate
Kate Mulgrew as Galina "Red" Reznikov, inmate
Laura Prepon as Alex Vause, inmate

text: Special guest stars[edit]

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Michael J. Harney as Sam Healy
Lea DeLaria as Carrie "Big Boo" Black
Alex Trebek as himself

text: Recurring cast[edit]

text: Inmates[edit]

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Amanda Fuller as Madison "Badison" Murphy
Finnerty Steeves as Beth Hoefler
Alice Kremelberg as Nicole Eckelcamp
Vicci Martinez as Dominga "Daddy" Duarte
Laverne Cox as Sophia Burset
Ashley Bacon as Young Frieda Berlin
Henny Russell as Carol Denning
Ashley Jordyn as Young Carol Denning
Mackenzie Phillips as Barbara "Barb" Denning
Lauren Kelston as Young Barbara "Barb" Denning
Sipiwe Moyo as Adeola
Daniella De Jesus as Irene "Zirconia" Cabrera
Shannon Esper as Alana Dwight
Lori Petty as Lolly Whitehill
Christina Toth as Annalisa Damiva
Kana Hatakeyama as Charlene Teng
Reema Sampat as Shruti Chambal
Jo Lampert as Marie Brock
Shirley Roeca as Vazquez
Rebecca Knox as Tina Swope

text: Staff[edit]

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Alysia Reiner as Natalie Figueroa, interim warden
Emily Tarver as CO Artesian McCullough
Susan Heyward as CO Tamika Ward
Nicholas Webber as CO Alvarez
Shawna Hamic as CO Copeland a.k.a. Ginger
Greg Vrotsos as CO Hellman
Mike Houston as CO Lee Dixon
James McMenamin as Charlie Coates
Josh Segarra as CO Stefanovic
Beth Dover as Linda Ferguson
Nick Dillenburg as CO Blake
Branden Wellington as CO Jarod Young
Hunter Emery as CO Rick Hopper

text: Others[edit]

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Michael J. Burg as Agent Mark Bellamy
Ali Ahn as Agent Nguyen
Alexander Wrigth as Vasily Reznikov
Miguel Izaguirre as Diablo
Karina Ortiz as Margarita

text: Production[edit]

text: In February 2016, Netflix gave the series a three-season renewal, which included its sixth season.[5] For the sixth season, Laura Gómez, Matt Peters and Dale Soules were promoted to series regulars.

text: Reception[edit]

text: The sixth season received positive reviews from critics, with most critics noting its improvement over the previous season. On Metacritic, it has a score of 69 out of 100 based on 14 reviews.[6] On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an 84% rating with an average score of 7.3 out of 10 based on 32 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "Brutality and humor continue to mesh effectively in a season of Orange Is the New Black that stands as a marked improvement from its predecessor, even if some arcs are more inspired than others."[7]


document_title: List of The Mick episodes

question_text: how many episodes in the mick season 2

question_tokens: how many episodes in the mick season 2

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text: List of The Mick episodes

text: Series overview[edit]

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Season
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
17
January 1, 2017 (2017-01-01)
May 2, 2017 (2017-05-02)

2
20
September 26, 2017 (2017-09-26)
April 3, 2018 (2018-04-03)

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text: Episodes[edit]

text: Season 1 (2017)[edit]

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No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
1
"Pilot"
Randall Einhorn
Dave Chernin & John Chernin
January 1, 2017 (2017-01-01)
1AZT01
8.58[4]

Irresponsible woman Mackenzie "Mickey" Molng is visiting her sister Poodle, who married into wealth, when Poodle and her husband Christopher are arrested by the FBI for fraud and tax evasion. Poodle asks Mickey to watch her children until things are sorted out. Mickey immediately clashes with oldest daughter Sabrina and neighbor Liz, gives bad advice to middle child Chip, and causes youngest child Ben to have an allergic reaction. Just as Mickey decides she isn't cut out for parenting, Poodle calls to say that she and Christopher are fleeing the country.

2
2
"The Grandparents"
Randall Einhorn
Dave Chernin & John Chernin
January 3, 2017 (2017-01-03)
1AZT02
3.37[5]

Mickey decides to return to her home in Rhode Island with Alba in tow, leaving the kids in the hands of Evelyn (Concetta Tomei), the strict and stern grandmother who is Christopher's mother. However, Mickey is forced back to Greenwich when Jimmy's loan shark (Kirk Fox) pays a visit.

3
3
"The Buffer"
Todd Biermann
Laura Chinn
January 10, 2017 (2017-01-10)
1AZT04
2.97[6]

Mickey learns that Sabrina isn't using any form of birth control in her relations with boyfriend Kai. After several unsuccessful attempts to change Sabrina's mind, Mickey and Alba team up to trick Sabrina into thinking she's pregnant. Meanwhile, Chip wants to get a girl at school to make out with him, and gets bad advice from Jimmy.

4
4
"The Balloon"
Randall Einhorn
Scott Marder
January 15, 2017 (2017-01-15)
1AZT07
4.09[7]

After forgetting Ben's birthday, Mickey and family scramble to throw him a belated party. Jimmy hires a washed-up birthday clown for Ben's party with a questionable recreational habit. Sabrina and Chip rent a pony for Ben, which ends up taking Chip on an adventure around the neighborhood.

5
5
"The Fire"
Kat Coiro
Brian Keith Etheridge and Dave Chernin & John Chernin
January 17, 2017 (2017-01-17)
1AZT08
2.77[8]

Ben has an apparently imaginary friend causing him to do strange things, so Chip tries to remedy the problem by spending more time with his little brother. After Mickey and Sabrina's smoking habit causes a fire that burns down Liz's guest house, they consider blaming it on Ben.

6
6
"The Master"
Iain MacDonald
Harper Dill
January 24, 2017 (2017-01-24)
1AZT06
2.76[9]

After a date with Jimmy becomes a disaster, Mickey meets Teddy Grant (Dave Annable), a wealthy heir who she quickly falls for. She then makes a fool of herself, becoming inebriated from alcohol and sea sick medication on their first date on his yacht. After discovering the master bedroom in the family mansion, Mickey plans on using it for her second date with Teddy. However, Chip and Sabrina argue over the room, with Chip wanting the room free until his parents return home, while Sabrina wants the room for herself, telling Chip their parents aren't coming back. Meanwhile, Alba keeps Ben preoccupied by watching kid-friendly programming on his tablet, but accidentally sets him up to watch horror films instead.

7
7
"The Country Club"
Randall Einhorn
Christine Nangle
January 31, 2017 (2017-01-31)
1AZT05
2.97[10]

The Pembertons' financial advisor says he can't figure out what's going on with their money, but suggests they keep a low profile. At the same time, they learn that tabloid columnist Oliver Fishburn (Sam Pancake) is writing a damning piece about the Pembertons' fall from grace ever since Poodle and Christopher were busted for tax evasion. Mickey decides to go to their country club to intercept him. This backfires when Chip finds he has been demoted to the last foursome in a golf tournament, while Sabrina has to relive an embarrassing incident from her early childhood.

8
8
"The Snitch"
Randall Einhorn
Scott MacArthur
February 7, 2017 (2017-02-07)
1AZT09
2.48[11]

The captain of Chip's school lacrosse team rewards the players for a big win by texting them all a photo of a nude woman (with the head and face not shown). Chip is caught by the principal viewing the photo and has to decide between saving himself or snitching on the team captain, which Mickey strongly suggests he not do. However, when Chip realizes whose body is in the photo, the decision is made for him. Meanwhile, the family Rolls Royce is keyed by someone while Alba is out in it with Ben, forcing Alba to make Ben ignore what he heard from Mickey and become a snitch himself.

9
9
"The Mess"
Geeta V. Patel
Lindsay Golder
February 14, 2017 (2017-02-14)
1AZT10
2.47[12]

Mickey is not surprised when Sabrina and Chip won't recognize her authority, but she is disappointed when they start to turn Ben against her, too. As the kids and Jimmy head off to a white trash party thrown by Sabrina's friend, Mickey tries to gain leverage any way she can and earn their respect.

10
10
"The Baggage"
Matt Sohn
Scott Marder
February 21, 2017 (2017-02-21)
1AZT11
2.38[13]

Mickey does not want her latest romantic interest Dante (Bert Belasco) to know about her "baggage", but it turns out he is great with the Pemberton kids – perhaps to a fault. Meanwhile, the other men who are interested in Mickey (Jimmy, Jerry from the club, and Fred the Fed) try to sabatoge her romance with Dante. Also, Ben keeps killing his pet rabbit, only to have it replaced by Alba every time because she doesn't think he's ready to learn about death.

11
11
"The New Girl"
Randall Einhorn
Brian Keith Etheridge
February 28, 2017 (2017-02-28)
1AZT03
2.41[14]

After the principal strongly suggests that Ben does not fit in and is falling behind in his studies, Mickey angrily pulls him from the school. With only two schools accepting new students, one of them a public school 40 miles away, Mickey lets Ben dress up like a girl and tries to present him as transgender to the private all-girls school across the street. Meanwhile, after Mickey suggests that Sabrina and Chip have no diversity in their life, both hang with Alba and try to learn more about her culture.

12
12
"The Wolf"
Randall Einhorn
Mehar Sethi
March 21, 2017 (2017-03-21)
1AZT12
2.25[15]

Chip goes through a website to get an Eastern European girlfriend named Yulia (Izabella Miko). He then sends her money to come to America, however, Mickey is sure he's been taken and tries to give him life lessons to toughen him up. Meanwhile, Sabrina's fiancé Kai quits his schooling for his career path and starts hanging out with Jimmy, causing Sabrina to worry that Kai will be a lifelong slacker like Jimmy.

13
13
"The Bully"
Kat Coiro
Nancy M. Pimental
March 28, 2017 (2017-03-28)
1AZT13
2.41[16]

After hearing that Sabrina is being bullied online by a classmate, Mickey tries to help by learning how to be a cyber-bully herself, but she only makes things worse. Meanwhile, Jimmy can't afford to have a painful tooth extracted because he has no insurance, so he attempts a self-extraction with help from Chip and Ben.

14
14
"The Heater"
Randall Einhorn
Scott Marder
April 4, 2017 (2017-04-04)
1AZT14
2.09[17]

When Mickey notices Ben has used casino chips for planets in a solar system diorama, and Ben reveals there are more chips hidden in his dad's den, Mickey's old gambling addiction kicks in. Alba tries to rescue Mickey from the casino, but gets caught up in the rush herself. With the two gone, Sabrina, Chip and Jimmy argue over who should be in charge of the household. Meanwhile, Ben travels to the casino on a bus all alone and is encountered by Alba outside the casino who brings him back safely.

15
15
"The Sleepover"
Silver Tree
Dominic Dierkes & Christian Lander
April 11, 2017 (2017-04-11)
1AZT15
2.17[18]

Chip is thrilled when a popular classmate named Dylan (Griffin Gluck) seems to like him, and he invites him for a sleepover in hopes that it will increase his own popularity. It turns out Dylan is using Chip to have a place to make out with his girlfriend, given that Mickey has a reputation for being a lax parental guardian. Meanwhile, Ben's recurring nightmare becomes all too real when Jimmy pulls a prank on Alba.

16
16
"The Implant"
Richie Keen
Dave Chernin & John Chernin
April 25, 2017 (2017-04-25)
1AZT17
2.27[19]

Sabrina says her mom promised her breast implants for her 18th birthday and wants to cash in the gift early. Mickey goes along and suggests they first wear implants under their bras so she can prove to Sabrina how her life will change. But a mishap when the ladies do brunch leads to an expensive implant being destroyed. Meanwhile, Mickey orders Jimmy to do some "man stuff" with Chip and Ben after the boys are afraid of a spider. Jimmy takes them to a New England Patriots football game, where he gets into a fight with Green Bay Packers fans.

17
17
"The Intruder"
Matt Sohn
Mehar Sethi
May 2, 2017 (2017-05-02)
1AZT16
1.89[20]

The family has an encounter with a couple of home intruders who turn out to be Christopher and Poodle, the kids' fugitive parents. Their return puts Mickey at odds with them on who is a better fit for the children. Meanwhile, Jimmy is shot during the altercation which lands him in a hospital bed and in police custody for some outstanding warrants. He then decides to play the long game in exchanging Christopher and Poodle's freedom for his own. Poodle forces Alba to be the maid again, so she schemes to rid the household of her and Christopher for good. Jimmy is last seen being electrically shocked after the police receive the parents' whereabouts from Alba. Christopher and Poodle are eventually attacked by police dogs and arrested, but not before Poodle states that Chip isn't Christopher's biological son. In the aftermath, Mickey and the family prepare to tell Ben about the news, but he has lit his room on fire, and the entire Pemberton house is soon engulfed in flames.

text: Season 2 (2017–18)[edit]

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
Prod.
code
U.S. viewers
(millions)

18
1
"The Hotel"
Richie Keen
Dave Chernin & John Chernin
September 26, 2017 (2017-09-26)
2AZT01
2.67[21]

After losing their mansion, the family takes up residence in an expensive resort hotel. With their spending out of control, their financial advisor Barry (Jason Kravits) freezes their accounts and the family is forced to move into a much cheaper hotel room. In response, Mickey and Sabrina attempt to blackmail Barry with incriminating photos, but the plot backfires and the family moves back to their ruined mansion. Meanwhile, Jimmy takes Chip under his wing, but their relationship is challenged by Chip's desire to hide his problems from his friends. In an attempt to cure Alba of her alcoholism, Ben performs an exorcism on her.

19
2
"The Friend"
Matt Sohn
Heather Flanders
October 3, 2017 (2017-10-03)
2AZT02
2.41[22]

With the family squabbling, Mickey goes to the gym to escape them. There, she meets Trish (Michaela Watkins), a divorcee looking for companionship, and makes her first real friend. She also sets up Trish with Jimmy, and the two fall for each other, encouraged by Alba, who wants to spend more time with Mickey. But Mickey is surprised to find herself becoming jealous of Jimmy being with Trish. When Mickey and Alba crash the wedding of Trish's ex, Mickey confesses her feelings for Jimmy before fainting from blood loss due to a injury she sustained. Trish ends up saving Mickey by donating her blood, and she and Jimmy move back in together. Meanwhile, Chip's attempt to convince his siblings he's "cool" by fighting a squirrel in his room ends with him getting bitten and contracting rabies.

20
3
"The Visit"
Kat Coiro
Scott Marder
October 10, 2017 (2017-10-10)
2AZT03
2.24[23]

After a meltdown at a picnic, Mickey decides to take Sabrina to visit her mother in prison, while Jimmy takes Chip and Ben to see Christopher. Poodle's sincere apology to Sabrina upsets Mickey, who feels that her sister purposefully ignored her contributions as guardian. The two sisters get in a fight, which Sabrina breaks up. Chip and Jimmy try to press Christopher's abusive cellmate Ziggy to leave him be, but get blown off. Ben makes friends with some other inmates, who stab Ziggy to death on his behalf. Mickey and Poodle repair their relationship, with Poodle promising to free up some accounts to help her kids. Christopher contacts Chip and thanks him for his efforts, while also hinting that Chip isn't his biological son.

21
4
"The Haunted House"
Matt Sohn
Scott MacArthur
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17)
2AZT04
2.26[24]

Mickey and Jimmy prepare to throw their annual Halloween party, over Chip's objections. However, things get complicated when Jimmy's planned pranks fail to work as expected, Mickey is forced to pose as a community policeman after knocking a real one out, and Sabrina finds herself with competition for the boy she planned to romance and rants about it publicly, inadvertently insulting everyone at the party with her condescending attitude. Ben eats too much candy and vomits on some electrical cords, triggering all the pranks at once and creating a massive explosion. To cover up the disaster, Mickey allows the real policeman to take credit for busting some vandals she caught earlier. In the aftermath, Jimmy begins planning for next year's party.

22
5
"The Invention"
Rebecca Asher
Matthew Libman & Daniel Libman
November 7, 2017 (2017-11-07)
2AZT05
2.07[25]

Two faculty members tell Mickey they think Ben needs a boost in his ADHD medication. Mickey didn't even know Ben was taking medication and wants him off it completely. She and Alba try to get Ben to come up with an idea for the school's invention fair, but none of Ben's ideas make any sense. Mickey and Alba are also at a loss for ideas, so as they set up Ben's booth, they decide the best course of action is to make it look like all the booths were vandalized and they begin trashing the place. Ben then arrives and reveals his invention: a vest that holds school supplies for his teacher. Elsewhere, the Acorn Boys Club that Chip organized when he was ten has decided they need more "adult" thrills. Enter Jimmy, who brings a crossbow to the next meeting, which Chip and his friends enjoy. However, after a member gets shot in the shoulder by accident, Chip disbands the club and burns down their meeting house.

23
6
"The Matriarch"
Kat Coiro
Eric Falconer
November 14, 2017 (2017-11-14)
2AZT07
2.10[26]

Mickey, Jimmy and the kids attend the 100th birthday of great-grandmother Rita (Judith Roberts). Tippy (Concetta Tomei) attempts to throw them out until Rita, confusing Mickey and Chip for her friend, Helen, and Helen's brain-damaged son, Dippy, insists they stay. When Tippy goes out of town to unwind, Mickey moves the family into her house and takes advantage of Rita's confusion. Jimmy and Sabrina argue over one of the house staff, Jimmy wanting to befriend him and Sabrina wanting to make him her slave. Meanwhile, Ben and Alba get lost in a hedge maze. Mickey and Chip start to argue over Rita. Mickey enjoys being spoiled by Rita but Chip resents being treated as an invalid until he starts getting pampered as well. Eventually, Mickey discovers that Rita is a lesbian and Helen was her lover. Mickey tries to let her down gently by blaming Dippy, which leads Rita to attempt to kill Chip. They decide to leave but after Rita dies in a freak accident, Tippy runs off, leaving her house (and the Colonel) in Mickey's care.

24
7
"The Homecoming"
Richie Keen
Rob Rosell
November 21, 2017 (2017-11-21)
2AZT06
2.14[27]

Jimmy returns to his and Mickey's home town of Warwick to receive an award for his prowess as a star pitcher on the high school baseball team. Things become strained when Jimmy learns that a prank Mickey pulled was responsible for the injury that prevented him from going pro. He ends up getting drunk and setting off fireworks during his ceremony, unintentionally injuring a young pitcher who, coincidentally, was very close to breaking Jimmy's school record for strikeouts. Meanwhile, Chip and Sabrina wander the town, and Chip later wants to call the police when his shoes are stolen. Chip becomes a laughingstock when the thieves are revealed to be a few kids of elementary school age, but he has them arrested nonetheless when they take illicit pictures of Sabrina. Mickey tries to apologize to Jimmy, but he realizes she's not being sincere and decides to walk home.

25
8
"The Teacher"
Eva Longoria
Lindsay Golder
November 28, 2017 (2017-11-28)
2AZT09
2.21[28]

Sabrina has become a pet pupil of her poetry teacher, whom Mickey is convinced is just trying to get in Sabrina's pants. After a poetry reading at a local coffee shop, Mickey sleeps with the teacher instead, earning the ire of Sabrina while putting the teacher's job in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Chip is lamenting his lack of popularity and asks Jimmy's help to make him cooler. Jimmy's idea is to have Ben punch Chip to give him a black eye. He then gives Chip instructions to remain vague and mysterious when his classmates ask what caused the black eye, but Chip instead makes up a story about taking on kids from the public school which leads to a very real fight. Pleased with his ability to help his brother, Ben decides to "help" the loser kids in his class become more popular by punching them all in the eye.

26
9
"The Divorce"
Matt Sohn
Dominic Dierkes
December 5, 2017 (2017-12-05)
2AZT10
2.44[29]

Poodle and Christopher announce their decision to divorce, and reveal to Chip that his real father is a man named Howard Buckley (Matthew Glave). This causes him to fall into despair, until Alba reveals that Howard is very rich. Mickey realizes that she and Jimmy are drifting apart romantically, and they decide to go on a date. Chip locates Howard in Stamford and meets him. Howard thinks Chip is a nice young man, and asks him to escort his daughter Kelly for the night, not knowing she is Chip's half-sister. Chip defends Kelly against an abusive boyfriend. Kelly then kisses him, and when he confesses he's her brother, she kicks him in the crotch. Jimmy gets beaten up by two men who mistake him for a rapist when he and Mickey have a drunken hookup. Howard remembers Poodle, but refuses to believe Chip is his son and throws him out. Mickey and Jimmy conclude that their relationship is toxic, and that they still don't know what they mean to each other.

27
10
"The Climb"
Amy York Rubin
Harper Dill
January 2, 2018 (2018-01-02)
2AZT11
2.28[30]

Sabrina throws a salon for a chance to join the board of an exclusive art museum, even as Mickey accuses her of "social climbing". Howard decides that he should have a place in Chip's life, and invites him to come on a camping trip to Maine. Mickey gets fed up with Ben's new friend Totsi and goes to confront his mother, who turns out to be Jennie Garth, one of Mickey's and Alba's favorite actresses. Mickey invites her to the salon, but Jennie questions her lifestyle choices and Totsi bullies Ben by destroying his possessions and putting him in a chokehold. Chip's lack of outdoor experience causes an accident that breaks Howard's leg, and he ends up having to drag his father to safety through the night. Mickey's attempt to secure an invitation to Mario Lopez's birthday party from Jennie is ruined when Ben exacts revenge on Totsi by shaving off his dreadlocks. Howard gets a DNA test while in the hospital that reveals he is not Chip's biological father; it turns out that Chip's real dad is a convict from New Jersey.

28
11
"The Trip"
Kat Coiro
John Howell Harris
January 9, 2018 (2018-01-09)
2AZT12
2.01[31]

Mickey is insistent that a reluctant Sabrina attend her upcoming interview for Yale. Nervous, she ends up using some of her aunt's stash of acid, and Mickey is forced to take the rest in order to help her. Alba's cousin Dagoberto arrives from Guatemala, and Alba gets Chip to treat her as a maid again so she can pretend to be working. However, when Chip hires Dagoberto as well and abuses his power over Alba, she blackmails him into firing her cousin. Sabrina gets separated from Mickey and winds up in a German teacher's (Flula Borg) class before Mickey finds her; she then dashes off to do the interview, while Mickey winds up in the school's auditorium attempting to perform Blind Melon's "No Rain" on cello, expressing her long-standing desire to be a musician. Sabrina ultimately gets accepted into Yale by being completely honest with her interviewer, and she and Mickey work up the nerve to return home.

29
12
"The City"
Eric Dean Seaton
Heather Flanders
January 16, 2018 (2018-01-16)
2AZT13
2.29[32]

Mickey gets a visit from the police informing her that Jimmy is dead. However, when they check the body, she realizes it isn't him. Chip visits his father Bert (Jay Mohr), who owns the strip club where Poodle used to work. Feeling guilty for not knowing about Chip, Bert tries to connect with him. Jimmy turns out to be a gofer for a prominent financial firm, having assumed Ben's identity. Mickey, hoping to repay Jimmy for all she's done to him, persuades his bosses to let him bring in his own client; Sabrina suggests that he choose Bert. While looking over Jimmy's new office, Mickey suspects that the firm is a "boiler room" operation and that Bert will be ruined. She alerts the IRS, but instead of the financiers, Bert is arrested, and Jimmy is subsequently fired. After Mickey apologizes, Jimmy admits that he misses her and agrees to return to Greenwich.

30
13
"The Dump"
Matt Sohn
Laura Chinn
January 23, 2018 (2018-01-23)
2AZT08
1.93[33]

Mickey and Alba chaperone a field trip to the dump and discover an extra child on the bus when they return to school. The boy won't answer their questions or even talk, but makes friends with Ben. Mickey and Alba try to figure out how to return the boy to where he belongs without appearing to be kidnappers. Chip and Sabrina take their grandfather in his wheelchair to a store where people are standing in line for a new line of exclusive sneakers, and they discover having their grandfather with them gives them advantages.

31
14
"The Church"
Matt Sohn
Dominic Dierkes
February 6, 2018 (2018-02-06)
2AZT14
2.01[34]

With Alba turning to religion to help fight her alcoholism, Mickey decides it's not a bad idea for all of them to go to a church service. Ben has lots of questions about God, which various family members try to answer. Just when it appears Ben is about to lose faith, Jimmy takes matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, Mickey is suspicious about the "friendship" that a young priest has developed with Chip.

32
15
"The Juice"
Matt Sohn
Eric Falconer
February 27, 2018 (2018-02-27)
2AZT15
1.90[35]

Mickey sees Chip and his friend Dylan following some bets they made, then convinces Dylan to bet "a hundred" on the underdog Buffalo Bills to cover the spread against the New England Patriots. At the same time, Sabrina is dating Alexis (Sophia Ali), a girl who plays goalie for a junior soccer team. The team has an upcoming game against a Canadian team. When Jimmy sees that a distracted Alexis is playing badly, his patriotism kicks in and he tries to convince Sabrina to break up with Alexis. The Buffalo Bills get crushed, and the rich Dylan reveals to Mickey that he bet a hundred thousand on the game. Mickey then learns the news from Jimmy about Alexis, and convinces her loan shark to take a $100,000 bet on the USA-Canada amateur soccer game. When Jimmy tries to break up Sabrina and Alexis, the soccer team misinterprets his purpose and a melee ensues. With half of the USA team headed to the hospital, they have to forfeit the game against Canada, and Mickey wins back Dylan's money. At home, Alba is freaked out when The Colonel appears to be able to move himself.

33
16
"The Accident"
Eric Dean Seaton
Daniel Libman & Matthew Libman
March 6, 2018 (2018-03-06)
2AZT16
1.72[36]

When Ben is the only boy from his class not invited to his school friend Troy's sleepover, Mickey and Jimmy petition the child's mother and get her to allow Ben to attend. Ben calls Mickey late that night to say he wet the bed. Mickey, Jimmy and Alba then embark on a night-long adventure to save Ben from embarrassment. Meanwhile, Chip says his friend Eduardo (Faly Rakotohavana) can make foolproof fake IDs for Sabrina and her two friends to get into an exclusive club, but he insists that the girls take him and Eduardo along in exchange for the IDs.

34
17
"The Night Off"
Eva Longoria
Franklin Hardy
March 13, 2018 (2018-03-13)
2AZT18
1.81[37]

When Alba leaves to go on vacation, Mickey appoints Sabrina to babysit Ben when she and Jimmy leave for a night out. Sabrina decides that a night out with her friends is much more appealing, causing her and Mickey get into an argument and end up in jail. With no supervision, Ben goes on a long walk with the Colonel and leaves Chip to fend for himself at home, leading to him chopping off some fingers while making a sandwich. Alba spends her vacation locked in a train bathroom with a rat. Meanwhile, Jimmy befriends a guy who came to his aid during a scuffle over a parking space, but is later disappointed to learn that the man is gay.

35
18
"The Car"
Michael McDonald
Scott Marder
March 20, 2018 (2018-03-20)
2AZT17
1.98[38]

Jimmy and Mickey go to a police auction to buy back Jimmy's Geo, but Jimmy instead buys an old police cruiser. While taking it for a joyride in the country, Jimmy and Mickey accidentally lock themselves out with Ben in the back seat, which is still caged off from the front. Jimmy walks to the nearest town for help as Mickey tries to rescue Ben through the trunk. At home, Sabrina tells Alba and Chip that she's booked an appointment with a tattoo artist she met online named Marcus. Chip confesses to Alba that he is pretending to be Marcus on social media to get closer to Sabrina's friend Holly. Alba decides to have some fun and play both sides, to the point of hiring a male prostitute to show up at the house as Marcus.

36
19
"The Dance"
Dave Chernin
Story by : Laura Chinn
Teleplay by : Dave Chernin & John Chernin
March 27, 2018 (2018-03-27)
2AZT20
1.77[39]

Principal Gibbons calls Mickey into his office and accuses Ben of stealing a teacher's golden apple award. Ben denies it and Mickey initially believes him, but evidence emerges that convinces Mickey otherwise, including finding a gun that Ben stole from a police car. Chip tries to become Spring Formal Prince by eliminating the competition. He eventually wins, only to find that the girl who wins Princess is not who he expected. Sabrina goes to Jimmy to learn dance moves after Mickey tells her that Jimmy's mother was a dance instructor. She says she just wants to impress people at the school dance, but Jimmy soon learns that Sabrina signed up for amateur night at a local strip club.

37
20
"The Graduate"
Matt Sohn
Caroline Fox
April 3, 2018 (2018-04-03)
2AZT19
1.78[40]

text: Ratings[edit]

text: Season 1 (2017)[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)

1
"Pilot"
January 1, 2017
2.8/9
8.58[4]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

2
"The Grandparents"
January 3, 2017
1.3/4
3.37[5]
0.9
2.27
2.2
5.64[41]

3
"The Buffer"
January 10, 2017
1.2/4
2.97[6]
0.9
2.14
2.1
5.11[42]

4
"The Balloon"
January 15, 2017
1.7/5
4.09[7]
0.8
1.82
2.5
5.91[42]

5
"The Fire"
January 17, 2017
1.1/4
2.77[8]
0.8
1.91
1.9
4.68[43]

6
"The Master"
January 24, 2017
1.0/4
2.76[9]
0.9
1.95
1.9
4.71[44]

7
"The Country Club"
January 31, 2017
1.1/4
2.97[10]
0.7
1.65
1.8
4.62[45]

8
"The Snitch"
February 7, 2017
1.0/3
2.48[11]
0.7
1.69
1.7
4.15[46]

9
"The Mess"
February 14, 2017
1.0/4
2.47[12]
0.7
1.69
1.7
4.16[47]

10
"The Baggage"
February 21, 2017
0.9/3
2.38[13]
0.7
1.51
1.6
3.89[48]

11
"The New Girl"
February 28, 2017
0.9/3
2.41[14]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

12
"The Wolf"
March 21, 2017
0.8/3
2.25[15]
0.7
1.52
1.5
3.77[49]

13
"The Bully"
March 28, 2017
0.9/3
2.41[16]
0.6
1.42
1.5
3.82[50]

14
"The Heater"
April 4, 2017
0.8/3
2.09[17]
0.7
1.46
1.5
3.55[51]

15
"The Sleepover"
April 11, 2017
0.8/3
2.17[18]
0.6
1.32
1.4
3.48[52]

16
"The Implant"
April 25, 2017
0.9/3
2.27[19]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

17
"The Intruder"
May 2, 2017
0.7/3
1.89[20]
0.6
1.36
1.3
3.25[53]

text: Season 2 (2017–18)[edit]

text:
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)

1
"The Hotel"
September 26, 2017
0.9/3
2.67[21]
0.6
1.40
1.5
4.06[54]

2
"The Friend"
October 3, 2017
0.9/3
2.41[22]
N/A
1.26
N/A
3.67[55]

3
"The Visit"
October 10, 2017
0.8/3
2.24[23]
N/A
1.24
N/A
3.48[56]

4
"The Haunted House"
October 17, 2017
0.8/3
2.26[24]
N/A
1.35
N/A
3.61[57]

5
"The Invention"
November 7, 2017
0.7/3
2.07[25]
0.7
1.44
1.4
3.51[58]

6
"The Matriarch"
November 14, 2017
0.7/3
2.10[26]
0.5
1.22
1.2
3.32[59]

7
"The Homecoming"
November 21, 2017
0.7/3
2.14[27]
0.5
1.15
1.2
3.29[60]

8
"The Teacher"
November 28, 2017
0.8/3
2.21[28]
N/A
1.10
N/A
3.31[61]

9
"The Divorce"
December 5, 2017
0.8/3
2.44[29]
N/A
1.19
N/A
3.63[62]

10
"The Climb"
January 2, 2018
0.8/3
2.28[30]
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

11
"The Trip"
January 9, 2018
0.7/3
2.01[31]
0.6
1.25
1.3
3.26[63]

12
"The City"
January 16, 2018
0.8/3
2.29[32]
N/A
1.19
N/A
3.48[64]

13
"The Dump"
January 23, 2018
0.7/2
1.93[33]
0.5
1.27
1.2
3.20[65]

14
"The Church"
February 6, 2018
0.7/3
2.01[34]
0.6
1.25
1.3
3.26[66]

15
"The Juice"
February 27, 2018
0.6/2
1.90[35]
0.5
1.18
1.1
3.08[67]

16
"The Accident"
March 6, 2018
0.6/2
1.72[36]
0.5
1.08
1.1
2.80[68]

17
"The Night Off"
March 13, 2018
0.6/2
1.81[37]
0.5
1.05
1.1
2.86[69]

18
"The Car"
March 20, 2018
0.7/3
1.98[38]
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

19
"The Dance"
March 27, 2018
0.7/3
1.77[39]
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD

20
"The Graduate"
April 3, 2018
0.7/3
1.78[40]
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD


document_title: James and the Giant Peach

question_text: where did james and the giant peach take place

text: James and the Giant Peach

text: Summary[edit]

text: Four-year-old James Henry Trotter lives with his loving parents in a beautiful cottage by the sea in the south of England, until his parents are killed by an escaped rhinoceros during a shopping trip in London.

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text: As a result, James is forced to live with his two cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge, in a run-down house on a high, desolate hill near the White Cliffs of Dover. For four years, James is treated as a drudge, forced to do hard labor, beaten for hardly any reason, improperly fed, and forced to sleep on bare floorboards in the attic. One summer afternoon, after a particularly upsetting altercation with his aunts, James stumbles across a mysterious stranger, who gives him magic green "crocodile tongues" which, when drunk with water, will bring him happiness and great adventures. On the way to the house, James spills the crocodile tongues onto a barren peach tree, which then produces a single peach that quickly grows to nearly the size of a house. The next day, the aunts sell tickets to neighbors and tourists to see the giant peach while James watches from the window of his room in which he is locked up, to prevent him from getting in the way of his aunts' business.

text: When night comes, the aunts release James and send him to collect rubbish discarded by the crowd. James went taking a closer look at the giant peach, but he discovers a tunnel, which leads to secret room inside the peach's seed, inhabited by a rag-tag band of human-sized, talking invertebrates (an old green grasshopper, centipede, earthworm, spider, ladybug, silkworm, and a glowworm), also transformed by the magic of the crocodile tongues given him earlier. These bugs then become James' companions in his adventure, and the companionship is prompted by a common hatred of the aunts. Upon James' arrival, the Centipede bites through the stem of the peach, whereupon it rolls down the hill early next morning, crushing and killing Spiker and Sponge on the way. Everyone inside the peach feels it rolling over the aunts and bursts out cheering. It rolls through villages, houses, and a famous chocolate factory before falling off the cliffs of Dover into the sea. James and the bugs emerge to find themselves floating in the sea but manage to sustain themselves on the delicious flesh of the peach. Hours later, near the Azores, the peach is surrounded by sharks. Using the Earthworm as bait, James and the others of the peach lure five hundred seagulls to the peach from the nearby islands, which they tie to the broken stem as a source of flight.

text: Now airborne, the peach crosses the Atlantic Ocean. At one incident, the Centipede entertains the others with ribald dirges to Sponge and Spiker, but in his excitement, he falls into the ocean and is rescued by James. That night, thousands of feet in the air, the giant peach floats through mountain-like, moonlit clouds, where the bugs and James discover the ghostly "Cloud-Men", who control the weather. As the Cloud-Men form hailstones to throw down to the world below, the Centipede insults them, and an army of Cloud-Men pelt the giant peach with hail. They escape and then encounter a rainbow which they smash through. One Cloud-Man pours a tin of "rainbow paint" onto the Centipede, briefly turning him into a statue before he is freed by a Cloud-Man who pours water on him. One Cloud-Man almost boards the peach by climbing down the silken strings tied to the stem, which the Centipede severs to release him. Thereafter, James and the bugs approach New York City; whereupon the military, police, fire department, and rescue services are all called, and people flee to air raid shelters and subway stations, believing the city is about to be destroyed.

text: A huge passenger jet flies past the giant peach and severs the silken strings connecting the seagulls to the peach, which is then impaled upon the tip of the Empire State Building. The people on the 86th floor at first believe the inhabitants of the giant peach to be monsters or extraterrestrials; but when James appears and explains his story, the people hail James and his friends as heroes. The remains of the giant peach are brought down to the streets, where it is consumed by the town's children, and its seed is established as a mansion in Central Park, where James lives, while his friends establish careers in the human world. In conclusion, James is said to have written the preceding story.

text: Characters[edit]

text:
James Henry Trotter – The protagonist of the book, who wants nothing more than to have friends and be happy. Though something of a dreamer, James is clever, kind-hearted, innocent, and ever-resourceful throughout his adventure in the giant peach, and his intuitive plans save his friends' lives on each occasion.
The Old Man – A friendly yet mysterious individual, who initiates James' adventure. In the 1980 re-printing of the book, with illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, he can be seen in the final illustration, amongst the New York City crowd.
Aunt Spiker – A dominating, cruel, malicious, and thoroughly repulsive woman; possibly the older of James' aunts. Spiker is described as tall and thin – almost emaciated – with steel glasses, and her speech produces spit whenever she gets angry or excited. James never hears her or her sister Sponge laugh, and they never call him by his name, but always refer to him as insults such as "you nasty little beast" or "you miserable creature". She seems to be the smartest of the aunts. She is destroyed by the giant peach in its escape. It is unknown if she and her sister Sponge are the sisters of James's mother or father, or (since the illustrations depict them as elderly) his great-aunts.
Aunt Sponge – Spiker's sister: a greedy, selfish, and morbidly obese woman, and equally as cruel and repulsive as Spiker, but seems to be less smart, and destroyed concurrently.
The Centipede – A male centipede, depicted as a boisterous rascal with a good heart, and perhaps James' closest friend in the peach. He is generally optimistic and even brave, but outspoken and rash. His sources of pride are his "100 legs", even though he has only 42, and his ancestral status of garden pest. He often asks for help with putting on his many boots, or taking them off, or shining them. In the last chapter of the book, it is revealed that he becomes Vice-President-in-Charge-of-Sales of a high-class firm of boot and shoe manufacturers.
The Earthworm – A male earthworm who often quarrels with the Centipede, and is frequently the most pessimistic of the protagonists, though on amicable terms with nearly all. In New York City, he becomes the mascot of a skin-cream company.
The Old Green Grasshopper – A male grasshopper, who (as the eldest) assumes an almost paternal role to James and the others. He is an accomplished musician; wherefore, he ultimately becomes a member of the New York Symphony Orchestra where his playing is greatly admired.
The Ladybird – A kind, motherly female ladybird who takes care of James. In the last chapter of the book, it is revealed that the Ladybird "married the head of the New York City Fire Department and lived happily ever after".
Miss Spider – A good-natured female spider who takes care of James. Generally friendly and decent in manner, but described by Dahl as having "a large, black and murderous-looking head, which to a stranger was probably the most terrifying of all". She has particular resentment toward Sponge, who caused the deaths of Miss Spider's father and grandmother. On the journey, Miss Spider makes hammocks for the others to sleep; and in the final chapter, becomes a tightrope manufacturer.
The Glowworm – A female glowworm, who quietly hangs from the ceiling at the center of the giant peach and provides lighting for the interior. After the adventure, she illuminates the Statue of Liberty's torch.
The Silkworm – A female Silkworm, who assists Miss Spider in the production of thread, both before and after the adventure. She is never seen to speak and is also the only one of James' travelling companions not to appear in the film adaptation.

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text: References in the book to other Roald Dahl works[edit]

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text: James and the Giant Peach possibly references Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the beginning and end of the novel (although its copyright date is three years earlier). When the peach rolls off the tree, it rolls through a "famous chocolate factory": a reference to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Towards the end of the book, people in New York City identify the protagonists, incorrectly, as Whangdoodles, Snozzwangers, Hornswogglers, or Vermicious Knids. All of those animals (except the last) are mentioned by Willy Wonka as predators of the Oompa-Loompas; and Vermicious Knids feature in the sequel book, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, when they try to link up with the Space Hotel U.S.A. It also references "the BFG" in the end of the novel: on the last page, James writes a recount of his adventure (the illustration shows him smiling with a book in his hands). This is also how the BFG ended. In both cases, the recounted stories are purported to be the books themselves .

text: Film adaptations[edit]

text: Though Roald Dahl declined numerous offers during his lifetime to have a film version of James and the Giant Peach produced, his widow, Liccy Dahl, approved an offer to have a film adaptation produced in conjunction with Disney in the mid-1990s.[6] It was directed by Henry Selick and produced by Denise Di Novi and Tim Burton, both of whom previously produced The Nightmare Before Christmas. The movie consists of live action and stop-motion to reduce production finances.[7] It was narrated by Pete Postlethwaite (who also played the wizard). The film was released on 12 April 1996.[8]

text: There are numerous changes in both the plot of the film and the plot of the book, though the film was generally well received. Liccy Dahl said that, "I think Roald would have been delighted with what they did with James."[6] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a positive review, praising the animated part, but calling the live-action segments "crude."[9] The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score (by Randy Newman). It won Best Animated Feature Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. In August 2016, Sam Mendes was revealed to be in negotiations with Disney to direct another live action adaptation of the novel.[10] In May 2017, however, Mendes was no longer attached to the project due to him entering talks with Disney about directing a live-action film adaptation of Pinocchio.[11]

text: Musical adaptation[edit]

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text: After Timothy Allen McDonald and Leslie Bricusse successfully developed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory into a musical, using songs from the 1971 film adaptation, Dahl's widow Liccy granted the rights to develop James and the Giant Peach to McDonald. McDonald started assembling the creative team in 2005. Lynn Ahrens, Freddie Gershon and Michael Kerker recommended the songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul in 2008. After an audition where Pasek and Paul wrote three potential songs in a week, including two that would be worked into the show (James's first solo, "On Your Way Home" and "Property of Spiker and Sponge"), McDonald hired the duo.[12]

text: Productions[edit]

text: 2010 Goodspeed[edit]

text: The musical premiered from 21 October 2010 to 21 November 2010 at Goodspeed Musicals in East Haddam, Connecticut.[13] The musical itself was quite different from its source material, but honored it. Throughout the two-month run, the show was revised. The cast featured young actors Ellis Gage and Justin Lawrence Hall playing James,[13] Steve Rosen as Marvo The Magician,[13] Ruth Gotschall as Aunt Spiker[13] and Denny Dillon as Aunt Sponge.[13] The show also featured Jim Stanek as the Grasshopper,[13] Chelsea Packard (credited as Chelsea Krombach) as the Ladybug,[13] Kate Wetherhead as the Spider,[13] Destan Owens as the Earthworm,[13] Nick Gaswirth as the Centipede,[13] also with Nicholas Park, Minami Yusi, Marissa Palley, and Jessica Fontana (credited as Jessica Hershberg) in the Ensemble. The dance troupe "Pilobolus" were a large part of the production bringing an innovative theatrical technique of using their bodies to create most of the set, specifically using shadow technique to create a majority of the special effects.[14] The production featured musical direction by Chris Fenwick and Dance arrangements by Sam Davis.[13] Pasek and Paul stated during the Goodspeed staging "we decided from the beginning that we were not writing a show for children [...] we are taking some of Dahl's darkness and expanding it even more."[14]

text: 2012 Kennedy Center[edit]

text: A work-in-progress version of the musical played at the 2012 New Visions/New Voices festival, held at the Kennedy Center in May 2012 for plays in development written for young audiences. The 2012 Kennedy Center production was directed by Marty Johnson and Timothy Allen McDonald.[15]

text: 2013 Seattle[edit]

text: In November 2013, a reworked version of the musical was presented at the Seattle Children's Theatre.[16] After the 2010 production, the show underwent much revision, altering plot aspects and songs to appeal to a younger audience, the most notable of which were the omitting of its former title song, "Perfectly Perfect", and the discontinuation of the use of "Pilobolus". Also, the character of Marvo, who, at times, was the narrator, is gone, and the introduction of "sophisticated" and "innovative" puppetry to depict some events, "including the show's title character, the Giant Peach."[16] The set was also more elaborate than at Goodspeed.

text: Justin Paul said of the revised version: "It's certainly changed — and hopefully evolved — since we [premiered] the show at Goodspeed. Obviously, that was the first time we'd ever seen the show in front of an audience, so we learned a lot just from that… Now, we sort of put [a different] lens on it and said, 'It needs to be a show that is going to be engaging a young audience — targeted for all ages,' [...]"[17]

text: Mike Spee, an adult, played James, Kendra Kassebaum played the Ladybug, and Julie Briskman and Jayne Muirhead played Sponge and Spiker, respectively. [18] The cast also featured Rich Gray as Centipede, Heath Saunders as Earthworm, Greg McCormick Allen as Grasshopper, Diana Huey as Spider, with Vickielee Wohlbach, Ian Lindsay and Auston James in the Ensemble.[19]

text: 2014 Toronto[edit]

text: In 2014, the musical made its Canadian premiere at the Young People's Theatre in Toronto, Ontario.[20] Directed by Sue Miner, choreographed by Jen Shuber and musically directed by Jason Jestadt, it featured Alessandro Constantini as James, Lana Carillo as Ladybug, Saccha Dennis as Spider, Stewart Adam McKensy as Grasshopper, Jacob MacInnis as Earthworm, Dale Miller as Centipede, Nicole Robert as Spiker and Karen Wood as Sponge. The show was adapted into James and The Giant Peach Jr., meant for actors ages 8-18. Its premiere was 14 October 2016, at the Kum & Go Theater in Des Moines, Iowa.

text: Original casts[edit]

text:
Character
Goodspeed (2010)
Seattle (2013)
Toronto (2014)
Cast Album (2015)[21]

James Trotter
Ellis Gage
Justin Lawrence Hall
Mike Spee
Alessandro Constantini
Luca Padovan

Aunt Spiker
Ruth Gotchall
Jayne Muirhead
Nicole Robert
Jackie Hoffman

Aunt Sponge
Denny Dillon
Julie Briskman
Karen Wood
Mary Testa

Ladahlord *
Steve Rosen

Marc Kudisch

Grasshopper
Jim Stanek
Greg McCormick Allen
Stewart Adam McKensy
Christian Borle

Ladybug
Chelsea Packard
Kendra Kassebaum
Lana Carillo
Megan Hilty

Spider
Kate Wetherhead
Diana Huey
Saccha Dennis
Sarah Stiles

Earthworm
Destan Owens
Heath Saunders
Jacob MacInnis
Daniel Breaker

Centipede
Nick Gaswirth
Rich Gray
Dale Miller
Brian d'Arcy James

text: * In the Connecticut Pre-Broadway production, the role of "Ladahlord" existed as "Marvo The Magician". Both characters served as partial narrators.

text: Cast recordings[edit]

text: A cast album was recorded and released in 2015 as a permanently free download.[22][23]

text:
"Overture"
"Right Before Your Eyes" (performed by Marc Kudisch and the full company)
"On Your Way Home" (Luca Padovan)
"Property of Spiker and Sponge" (Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa)
"Shake It Up" (Daniel Breaker, Marc Kudisch, Luca Padovan, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty, Brian d'Arcy James, and Sarah Stiles)
"There's Money On That Tree" (Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa; and ensemble)
"Middle of a Moment" (Luca Padovan)
"Floatin' Along" (Christian Borle, Daniel Breaker, Megan Hilty, Marc Kudisch, Brian d'Arcy James, and Sarah Stiles)
"Entr'acte"
"Have You Even Begun to Wonder?" (Christian Borle, Daniel Breaker, Megan Hilty, Marc Kudisch, Brian d'Arcy James, and Sarah Stiles)
"A Getaway for Spiker and Sponge" (Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa)
"Everywhere That You Are" (Daniel Breaker, Megan Hilty, Marc Kudisch, Brian d'Arcy James, and Sarah Stiles)
"I Got You" (Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa)
"Plump and Juicy" (Earthworm and the ensemble)
"Empire State/The Attack" (Marc Kudisch and the ensemble)
"On Your Way Home (reprise)" (Luca Padovan)
"Welcome Home" (full company)
"Exit Music"

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text: Bonus tracks include "Everywhere That You Are" (performed by Megan Hilty) and "Middle of a Moment" (performed by Skylar Astin).[24]

text: Editions[edit]

text:
ISBN 0-06-054272-1 (audio CD read by Jeremy Irons, 2003)
ISBN 0-14-037156-7 (paperback, 1995)
ISBN 1-55734-441-8 (paperback, 1994)
ISBN 0-14-034269-9 (paperback, 1990)
ISBN 0-553-15113-4 (Bantam Skylark paperback, 1980)
ISBN 0-394-81282-4 (hardcover, 1961)
ISBN 978-0-394-91282-0 (library binding, 1961)


document_title: Japanese colonial empire

question_text: what nation did japan turn into a colony

text: Japanese colonial empire

text: The first overseas territories that Japan acquired were the islands of the surrounding seas. In the 1870s and 1880s, Japan established control over the Nanpō, Ryukyu, and Kurile islands as well as strengthening its hold on the home islands. But this effort was less the initial step toward colonial expansion than it was a reassertion of national authority over territories traditionally within the Japanese cultural sphere.[2] This was similar to nation building in nineteenth  and twentieth century Europe.

text: Acquisition of Colonies[edit]

text: "The Nation, Volume 74", published in 1902, described the conditions leading to Japanese colonialism : "In all the ameliorating conditions every one must rejoice; but when these are coupled with the old-time lack of self-control leading to universal early marriages, a problem is rolling up before which Japanese statesmen are appalled. At the present rate of increase there will, before the middle of this century, be a hundred million people to provide for. It Is this prospect which is leading Japanese statesmen to make such frantic efforts to secure opportunity for colonization. Being practically shut off from going to other foreign countries, and Formosa being already largely occupied, Japan would naturally look to Korea and Manchuria; but of these places Korea would afford only partial relief, both because of its limited area and of its present population. The northern region of Manchuria, however, is still almost as much in a state of nature as were the prairies of the Mississippi valley when the Indians roamed freely over them."[3]

text: Taiwan[edit]

text: Between 1895 and 1945, Taiwan (including the Pescadores) was a dependency of the Empire of Japan, after Qing China lost the First Sino-Japanese War to Japan and ceded Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. The short-lived Republic of Formosa resistance movement ended to no avail when it was suppressed by the Japanese troops. The fall of Tainan ended organized resistance to Japanese occupation, and inaugurated five decades of Japanese rule.

text: The annexation and incorporation of Taiwan into the Japanese colonial empire can be viewed as first steps in implementing their "Southern Expansion Doctrine" of the late 19th century. As Taiwan was Japan's first overseas colony, Japanese intentions were to turn the island into a showpiece "model colony".[4] As a result, much effort was made to improve the island's economy, industry, public works and to change its culture for much of the necessities of the war machine of Japanese military aggression in the Asia-Pacific until the surrender of Japan.

text: In 1945, after the defeat of the Empire of Japan in World War II, Taiwan was placed under the control of the Republic of China (ROC) with the signing of the Instrument of Surrender as a part of surrender ceremonies throughout the Asia-Pacific theater.[5] The experience of Japanese rule, ROC rule, and the February 28 Incident (1947) continues to affect issues such as Taiwan Retrocession Day, national identity, ethnic identity and the Taiwan independence movement.

text: Korea[edit]

text: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, various Western countries actively competed for influence, trade, and territory in East Asia, and Japan sought to join these modern colonial powers. The newly modernized Meiji government of Japan turned to Korea, then in the sphere of influence of China's Qing Dynasty. The Japanese government initially sought to separate Korea from Qing and make Korea a Japanese satellite in order to further their security and national interests.[6]

text: In January 1876, following the Meiji Restoration, Japan employed gunboat diplomacy to pressure Korea, under the Joseon Dynasty, to sign the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876, which granted extraterritorial rights to Japanese citizens and opened three Korean ports to Japanese trade. The rights granted to Japan under this unequal treaty,[7] were similar to those granted western powers in Japan following the visit of Commodore Perry.[7] Japanese involvement in Korea increased during the 1890s, a period of political upheaval.

text: Korea was occupied and declared a Japanese protectorate following the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, and officially annexed in 1910 through the annexation treaty.

text: In South Korea, the period is usually described as a time of Japanese "forced occupation" (Hangul: 일제 강점기; Ilje gangjeomgi, Hanja: 日帝强占期). Other terms used for it include "Japanese Imperial Period" (Hangul: 일제시대, Ilje sidae, Hanja: 日帝時代) or "Japanese administration" (Hangul: 왜정, Wae jeong, Hanja: 倭政). In Japan, a more common description is "Japanese rule" (日本統治時代の朝鮮, Nippon Tōchi-jidai no Chōsen). Korea was officially part of the Empire of Japan for 35 years, from August 22, 1910, until the formal Japanese rule ended on September 2, 1945, upon the surrender of Japan. The 1905 and 1910 treaties were officially declared "null and void" by both Japan and South Korea in 1965.

text: South Pacific Mandate[edit]

text: Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the Empire of Japan declared war on the German Empire and quickly seized the possessions of the German colonial empire in the Pacific Ocean (the Northern Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands and the Marshall Islands) with virtually no resistance. After the end of the war the Treaty of Versailles formally recognised the Japanese occupation of former German colonies in Micronesia north of the equator. A League of Nations mandate put them under the Japanese administration known as the Nan'yō Prefecture (南洋庁, Nan'yō Chō) and the post of Governor of the South Pacific Mandate was created.[8]

text: The main significance of the South Pacific Mandate to Japan was its strategic location, which dominated the sea lanes across the Pacific Ocean and provided convenient provisioning locations for ships. During the 1930s, the Imperial Japanese Navy began construction of airfields, fortifications, ports, and other military projects on the South Pacific Mandate islands, viewing them as "unsinkable aircraft carriers" with a critical role to play in the defense of the Japanese home islands against potential invasion by the United States. They became important staging grounds for Japanese air and naval offensives in the Pacific War but were lost to United States military action between 1943 and 1945. The League of Nations mandate was formally revoked by the United Nations on July 18, 1947 pusuant to Security Council Resolution 21, making the United States responsible for administration of the islands under the terms of a United Nations trusteeship agreement which established the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

text: Manchuria[edit]

text: Inner Manchuria had been under Russian influence until the Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904/05) which brought the area under Japanese influence. In 1906, Japan laid the South Manchurian Railway to Port Arthur (Japanese: Ryojun). The chaos following the Russian Revolution of 1917 allowed Japan to temporarily extend its control into Outer Manchuria, but the area returned to Soviet control by 1925. Inner Manchuria came under the control of the Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin during the warlord period in China. He initially had Japanese backing, but the Japanese Kwantung Army found him too independent. He was assassinated in 1928.

text: The Japanese invasion of Manchuria took place in 1931 following the Mukden Incident, a staged event engineered by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for invasion.[9][10][11] The region was subsequently separated from Chinese control and the Japanese-aligned puppet state of Manchukuo was created.[12] The last Emperor of China, Puyi, was installed as head of state in 1932, and two years later he was declared Emperor of Manchukuo. The city of Changchun was renamed Hsinking and became the capital of Manchukuo. An imperial palace was specially built for the emperor. He was, however, nothing more than a figurehead and real authority rested in the hands of the Japanese military officials. The Manchu ministers all served as front-men for their Japanese vice-ministers, who made all decisions. Anti-Japanese Volunteer Armies were organised by the Chinese in Manchuria and the pacification of Manchukuo required a war lasting several years.

text: During the 1930s the Japanese colonised Manchukuo. With Japanese investment and rich natural resources, the economy of Manchukuo experienced rapid economic growth. Manchukuo's industrial system became one of the most advanced, making it one of the industrial powerhouses in the region.[13] Manchukuo's steel production exceeded Japan's in the late 1930s. The Japanese Army initially sponsored a policy of forced industrialization modeled after the Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union[14] but subsequently private capital was used in a very strongly state-directed economy. There was progress in the area's social systems and many Manchurian cities were modernised. Manchukuo issued its own notes and postal stamps, and several independent banks were founded. The Chinese Eastern Railway was bought from the Soviet Union In 1935. Traditional lands were taken and redistributed to Japanese farmers with local farmers relocated and forced into collective farming units over smaller areas of land.

text: During this period Manchukuo was used as a base from which to invade China. In the summer of 1939 a border dispute between Manchukuo and the Mongolian People's Republic resulted in the Battle of Khalkhin Gol. During this battle, a combined Soviet Army and Mongolian force defeated the Japanese Kwantung Army (Kantōgun) supported by limited Manchukuoan forces. The Soviet Union declared war on Japan on 8 August 1945 in accordance with the agreement at the Yalta Conference, and invaded Manchukuo from outer Manchuria and Outer Mongolia. This was called Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. The Army of Manchukuo was defeated and the Emperor was captured by Soviet forces. Most of the 1.5 million Japanese who had been left in Manchukuo at the end of World War II were sent back to their homeland in 1946-1948 by U.S. Navy ships in the operation now known as the Japanese repatriation from Huludao.

text: Administration[edit]

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text: Plowman recounts how the lack of skilled personnel led to the establishment of puppet-governments and the promotion of indigenous elites in the administration of territories which came under Japanese control in the 1940s.[15]

text: Economic development[edit]

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text: According to Atul Kohli, the David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, "the Japanese made extensive use of state power for their own economic development and then used the same state power to pry open and transform Korea in a relatively short period of time".[16] Japan was "decisive in altering both the nature of the Korean state and the relationship of this state to various social classes."[17] How the Japanese centralized bureaucratic style of government was transferred to Korea; how they developed Korean human capital by a considerable expansion of education; how the Japanese invested heavily in infrastructure. Kohli's conclusion is that "the highly cohesive and disciplining state that the Japanese helped to construct in colonial Korea turned out to be an efficacious economic actor. The state utilized its bureaucratic capacities to undertake numerous economic tasks: collecting more taxes, building infrastructure, and undertaking production directly. More important, this highly purposive state made increasing production one of its priorities and incorporated property-owning classes into production-oriented alliances".[18] This sprawling bureaucratic state continued post-World War II and after the Korean War. Japan's early colonial industrialisation of Korea also made it easier to rebuild after the Korean War, because there was no need to begin industrialisation ab initio. Examining Korea's policies and achievements in the 1960s and 1970s, Kohli states that during this period the country was firmly heading towards "cohesive-capitalist development, mainly by re-creating an efficacious but brutal state that intervened extensively in the economy".[19] South Korean economic development was not market-driven—rather the "state intervened heavily to promote exports, using both market and non-market tools to achieve its goals".[20]